Erratum to: Malar J (2016) 15:141 DOI 10.1186/s12936-016-1188-7
The authors of [1] would like to highlight the following corrections to their original article published in Malaria Journal.
In the third paragraph of ‘Case detection and clinical outcome’ in the “Results” section of [1], “acute renal dysfunction (5.3 %)” should be replaced as “severe anaemia (5.3 %)”.
In addition, in Table 3 of the original publication [1], the Overall Complicated signs/symptoms on coma should be 25 (1.8 %), Cerebral lesion be 23 (1.6 %), Gastrointestinal damage 32 (2.3 %), Liver function impairment 38 (2.7 %) and Severe anaemia 25 (1.8 %). The following is our corrected Table 3.
Table 3.
Clinical manifestation of imported malaria cases by outpatient and inpatient in nine provinces of China
| Clinical features | Overall (n = 1420) | Outpatients n = 945 |
Inpatients n = 475 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
P.f.
(n = 389) |
P.v.
(n = 515) |
All (n = 945) |
P.f.
(n = 334) |
P.v.
(n = 114) |
All (n = 475) |
||
| Common signs/symptoms | 1412 (99) | 383 (98.5 %) | 514 (99.8 %) | 938 (99.3 %) | 333 (99.7 %) | 113 (99.1 %) | 474 (99.8 %) |
| Fever | 1390 (97.9 %) | 372 (95.6 %) | 509 (98.8 %) | 920 (97.4 %) | 331 (99.1 %) | 113 (99.1 %) | 470 (98.9 %) |
| Chills | 1159 (81.6 %) | 282 (72.5 %) | 474 (92.0 %) | 785 (83.1 %) | 248 (74.3 %) | 104 (91.2 %) | 374 (78.7 %) |
| Sweating | 1008 (71.0 %) | 249 (64.0 %) | 423 (82.1 %) | 697 (73.8 %) | 203 (60.8 %) | 90 (78.9 %) | 311 (65.5 %) |
| Headache | 921 (64.9 %) | 234 (60.2 %) | 383 (74.4 %) | 640 (67.7 %) | 188 (56.3 %) | 79 (69.3 %) | 281 (59.2 %) |
| Malaise | 414 (29.2 %) | 122 (31.4 %) | 147 (28.5 %) | 281 (29.7 %) | 92 (27.5 %) | 35 (30.7 %) | 133 (28.0 %) |
| Dizziness | 272 (19.2 %) | 89 (22.9 %) | 85 (16.5 %) | 181 (19.2 %) | 66 (19.8 %) | 22 (19.3 %) | 91 (19.2 %) |
| Diarrhoea | 168 (11.8 %) | 42 (10.8 %) | 41 (8.0 %) | 87 (9.2 %) | 44 (13.2 %) | 5 (4.4 %) | 81 (17.1 %) |
| Complicated signs/symptoms | 112 (7.9 %) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95 (28.4 %) | 17 (14.9 %) | 112 (23.6 %) |
| Coma | 25 (1.8 %) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 (7.5 %) | 0 | 25 (5.3 %) |
| Cerebral lesion | 23 (1.6 %) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 (6.6 %) | 1 (0.9 %) | 23 (4.8 %) |
| Gastro-intestinal damage | 32 (2.3 %) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 (6.9 %) | 9 (7.9 %) | 32 (6.7 %) |
| Liver function impairment | 38 (2.7 %) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 (11.4 %) | 0 | 38 (8.0 %) |
| Acute renal dysfunction | 23 (1.6 %) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 (6.9 %) | 0 | 23 (4.8 %) |
| Severe anaemia | 25 (1.8 %) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 (6.3 %) | 4 (3.5 %) | 25 (5.3 %) |
| Haemolysis | 19 (1.3 %) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 (5.1 %) | 2 (1.8 %) | 19 (4.0 %) |
| Shock | 7 (0.5 %) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 (2.1 %) | 0 | 7 (1.5 %) |
| Acidosis | 5 (0.4 %) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 (1.2 %) | 1 (0.9 %) | 5 (1.1 %) |
P.f., Plasmodium falciparum; P.v., Plasmodium vivax
We regret these mistakes.
Footnotes
Zhongjie Li, Qian Zhang and Canjun Zheng contributed equally to this work
The online version of the original article can be found under doi:10.1186/s12936-016-1188-7.
Contributor Information
Xiao-Nong Zhou, Email: ipdzhouxn@sh163.net.
Weizhong Yang, Email: yangwz@chinacdc.cn.
Reference
- 1.Li Z, Zhang Q, Zheng C, Zhou S, Sun J, Zhang Z, et al. Epidemiologic features of overseas imported malaria in the People’s Republic of China. Malar J. 2016;15:1. doi: 10.1186/s12936-015-1044-1. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]